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Marla Olmstead seems oblivious to the attention
(Agencies) | |
A four-year-old girl is wowing the New York art world with paintings
that are drawing comparisons with Jackson Pollock and Wassily Kandinsky.
Marla Olmstead, from Binghampton, in New York state, has been painting
since just before she was two years old.
Using brushes, spatulas ,
her fingers and even ketchup bottles, she is creating canvases of six by
six foot.
The prodigy has already sold about 25 paintings,
raising $40,000 and a new exhibition opens this week.
Father Mark, speaking to reporters while on a trip to New York city to
do television interviews, said: "She does her own thing, she uses a lot of
paint but is oblivious to the whole thing."
He said she had first started painting shortly before her second
birthday as her father tried to stop her distracting him from his own
amateur art.
"It was me attempting to paint. I painted my wife's portrait and I gave
her the paint as a diversionary tactic.
"She went at it with all colours. Initially she directed me, and then
it evolved to the canvas.
"I'm her assistant, I hand her the brushes. She doesn't appreciate that
most artists have to wait longer to have an assistant," he joked.
Mr Olmstead said his daughter's work was evolving as she developed into
a mature artist.
"She is evolving with technique and her handling of the brush. She
seems a little more cautious."
Gallery owner Anthony Brunelli said of 10 pieces about to go on show,
six were already sold, and that the remaining four could fetch between
$8-10,000.
He said Marla's work was unbelievable for a child.
"Her paintings have vibrant colours. They're very expressive in the way
the paint is applied, brush, spatula, her fingers. Some are Kandinskyesque
and some are Pollockesque.
Mr Brunelli's assessment of Marla's prospects as an adult artist are
cautious.
"You never can tell. I've seen her progressing over the past year. The
four she just did, each one gets
better."
(Agencies) |
一個四歲的小女孩憑借自己的油畫作品震驚了整個紐約藝術界，人們把她的畫和杰克遜·波洛克和瓦西里·康定斯基的作品相提并論。
來自紐約州賓厄姆頓的瑪勒·奧姆斯戴德還不到兩歲就開始畫畫。
她用畫筆、調色刀、手指、甚至是裝蕃茄醬的瓶子在6英尺見方的畫布上做畫。
這個小神童已經賣出了大約25幅畫，共計4萬美元。本周她又要舉行一場作品展。
她的父親馬克在去紐約接受電視采訪的途中告訴記者說：“她按自己的想法畫畫。她用很多顏料，卻對整體布局并不在意。”
他說女兒在兩歲生日前不久開始畫畫，讓女兒畫畫是為了不讓她妨礙自己的業余繪畫。
“最初是我嘗試繪畫。我為妻子畫肖像畫，然后把畫送給瑪勒，來轉移她的注意力。”
“她用各種顏色的顏料在上面畫畫。一開始她盯著我，后來她的注意力就轉移到油畫上了。”
他開玩笑說：“我是她的助手，我給她遞畫筆。她不知道大多數畫家需要等待更長的時間才會有助手幫忙。”
奧姆斯戴德先生說他的女兒逐漸成為一名業余畫家，她的作品也在不斷進步。
“她在技巧和運筆上都有所進步。她看上去更加細致小心了。”
美術館經理安東尼·布魯內利說（展覽會）將會展出瑪勒的10幅畫，其中6幅已經售出了，其余四幅預計可以賣到8000到10000美元。
他說作為一個孩子，瑪勒的作品是不可思議的。
“她的畫色彩明快。她用畫筆、調色刀和手指著色的風格使這些畫非常富有表現力。一些畫像康定斯基的作品，還有一些像波洛克。”
布魯內利對瑪勒將來是否會成為一名畫家持保守態度。
“你永遠沒法預見。在過去的一年里我看著她成長。她最近畫的四幅畫，一幅比一幅好。”
（中國日報網站譯） |
Updated: 2004-09-30 15:38